Sea Change in the Anglican Communion - Stephen Noll
Sea Change in the Anglican Communion
Thoughts on the Standing Committee Minutes
By The Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll
American Anglican Council
http://www.americananglican.org/sea-change-in-the-anglican-communion
August 17, 2011
Over the years, my family has welcomed a summer vacation on the Atlantic coast. The sun, the sea, the sand, the shrimp combine for some deep-down rest and enjoyment. We have also encountered occasional storms and even a hurricane or two. Usually storms pass quickly, with a return to sunny beach weather. However, for several days thereafter the sea is roiled with dangerous currents and breakers far up the shoreline before returning to almost lake-like placidity.
I thought about this natural cycle in reviewing the Minutes of "The Standing Committee" of the Anglican Communion. Let's begin with the storm. The decade following the 1998 Lambeth Conference was quite tumultuous, as I have documented elsewhere. The Episcopal Church (TEC) willfully rejected the biblical and traditional understanding of sex and marriage, as affirmed in Lambeth Resolution I.10 on Human Sexuality and advanced its agenda of promoting same-sex "blessings" and marriage and ordaining practicing homosexuals to the priesthood and episcopate, leading most notably to the consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson in 2003. This violation in turn led to a flurry of crisis meetings, forced by the Primates of the Global South, climaxing in 2007 at Dar es Salaam with an ultimatum threatening its exclusion from the Communion.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Thoughts on the Standing Committee Minutes
By The Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll
American Anglican Council
http://www.americananglican.org/sea-change-in-the-anglican-communion
August 17, 2011
Over the years, my family has welcomed a summer vacation on the Atlantic coast. The sun, the sea, the sand, the shrimp combine for some deep-down rest and enjoyment. We have also encountered occasional storms and even a hurricane or two. Usually storms pass quickly, with a return to sunny beach weather. However, for several days thereafter the sea is roiled with dangerous currents and breakers far up the shoreline before returning to almost lake-like placidity.
I thought about this natural cycle in reviewing the Minutes of "The Standing Committee" of the Anglican Communion. Let's begin with the storm. The decade following the 1998 Lambeth Conference was quite tumultuous, as I have documented elsewhere. The Episcopal Church (TEC) willfully rejected the biblical and traditional understanding of sex and marriage, as affirmed in Lambeth Resolution I.10 on Human Sexuality and advanced its agenda of promoting same-sex "blessings" and marriage and ordaining practicing homosexuals to the priesthood and episcopate, leading most notably to the consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson in 2003. This violation in turn led to a flurry of crisis meetings, forced by the Primates of the Global South, climaxing in 2007 at Dar es Salaam with an ultimatum threatening its exclusion from the Communion.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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